[Mark Allinson]

Paul, interestingly, the true "clash of cultures" is not between Islam and Christianity, which have proved that they can live together in peace (with Judaism also) during many historical periods.

There is really only one world religion today which is utterly incompatible with the “Perennial Philosophy”, and that is the contemporary de facto Western religion called “Scientism.” As Houston Smith writes:

“Twenty years ago I wrote a book, The Religions of Man, which presented the world's enduring traditions in their individuality and variety. It has taken me until now to see how they converge. The outlooks of individual men and women ... are too varied even to classify, but when they gather in collectivities--the outlooks of tribes, societies, civilizations, and at deepest the world's great religions--these collective outlooks admit of overview. What then emerges is a remarkable unity underlying the surface variety. When we look at human bodies, what we normally notice is their surface features, which of course differ markedly. Meanwhile on the insides the spines that support these motley physiognomies are structurally very much alike. It is the same with human outlooks. Outwardly they differ, but inwardly it is as if an ’invisible geometry’ has everywhere been working to shape them to a single truth.

The sole notable exception is ourselves; our contemporary Western outlook differs in its very soul from what might otherwise be called ‘the human unanimity’. But there is an explanation for this: modern science and its misreading. If the cause were science itself, our deviation might be taken [as the Dawkins-people assert] as a breakthrough: a new departure for mankind, the dawning of an age of reason after a long night of ignorance and superstition. But since it derives from a misreading of science, it is an aberration. If we succeed in correcting it, we can rejoin the human race. "

– Houston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition, p ix, x.

Modern secular rationalist materialist culture is a true anomaly in the history of cultures, and it opposes ALL other religions, true to its intolerant, fundamentalist nature.